long live CDMA! long live Hedy Lamarr!

As reported here on the fring Australia blog earlier, Australia’s CDMA network is dead. But code division multiplexing, the technology…that actually had film star Hedy Lamarr as one of it’s founders (see here) … lives on in the 3G world. Don’t believe me?

Well check out this brief podcast, part of Hill Associates’ excellent and highly recommended “Podsnacks” series explaining the mysteries of data communications. (See here). The code division approach lives on, even if CDMA, at least in Australia, is buried.

Now if all this is too geeky, and you’d prefer to hear about Hedy Lemarr’s brush with high technology, check out this Youtube story. The role of Hollywood siren Hedy Lemarr as a technology pioneer is one of the great stories of the geekdom.

On the other hand, if you’d prefer to just look at images of Hedy Lemarr, well Youtube can help too.